This year’s Oscar nominations have just been announced and they’re the icing on the big, atomic cake baked by Christopher Nolan and Oppenheimer. To sit proudly along its $955 million in box-office takings, the World War II-era epic will be competing for 13 Academy Awards at LA’s Dolby Theater on March 20.
Martin Scorsese’s Killers of the Flower Moon picked up ten nominations, including the great man’s tenth Best Director nod (he’s won once, for The Departed). Lily Gladstone, snubbed at this year’s BAFTAs, is up for Best Actress, the first indigenous American actor to be nominated in the category.
Other big winners at today’s announcement included Yorgos Lanthimos’s Poor Things, a giddy, gonzo picaresque, picked up nominations in 11 categories, include Best Actress (Emma Stone), Best Adapted Screenplay and Best Director (both Lanthimos).
Barbie scored eight nominations, including Best Picture, Ryan Gosling for Best Supporting Actor, and an unexpected nod for America Ferrera as Best Supporting Actress, but missed out on Best Director and Best Actress for Greta Gerwig and Margot Robbie respectively.
As for the likely winners, a lack of a Best Editing nomination – a historical requirement for a strong Best Picture candidate – feels like a bad omen for Maestro’s chances of landing the big one. Then again, Coda managed it as recently as 2022, so don’t rule it out entirely.
May December, an early favourite with awards spotters, has slipped out of contention for the bigger prizes in recent weeks, but earned a nomination in the Best Original Screenplay category.
Obviously, not everyone will be happy with this line-up – #JusticeforWonka, etc. – but this year’s line-up feels like a pretty even-handed ballot, with the big hitters, commercially and critically, all being recognised.
Here are the nominations in full:
Best Picture
Past Lives
American Fiction
Anatomy of a Fall
Barbie
The Holdovers
Killers of the Flower Moon
Maestro
Oppenheimer
Poor Things
The Zone of Interest
Best Director
Christopher Nolan, Oppenheimer
Yorgos Lanthimos, Poor Things
Jonathan Glazer, The Zone of Interest
Martin Scorsese, Killers of the Flower Moon
Justine Triet, Anatomy of a Fall
Best Actress
Lily Gladstone, Killers of the Flower Moon
Sandra Hüller, Anatomy of a Fall
Carey Mulligan, Maestro
Emma Stone, Poor Things
Annette Bening, Nyad
Best Actor
Bradley Cooper, Maestro
Colman Domingo, Rustin
Paul Giamatti, The Holdovers
Cillian Murphy, Oppenheimer
Jeffrey Wright, American Fiction
Best Supporting Actress
Da’Vine Joy Randolph, The Holdovers
Emily Blunt, Oppenheimer
Danielle Brooks, The Color Purple
Jodie Foster, Nyad
America Ferrera, Barbie
Best Supporting Actor
Sterling K Brown, American Fiction
Robert De Niro, Killers of the Flower Moon
Robert Downey Jr, Oppenheimer
Ryan Gosling, Barbie
Mark Ruffalo, Poor Things
Best Original Screenplay
May December
The Holdovers
Past Lives
Anatomy of a Fall
Maestro
Best Adapted Screenplay
Poor Things
The Zone of Interest
Oppenheimer
Barbie
American Fiction
Best Animated Feature
Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse
Elemental
The Boy and the Heron
Robot Dreams
Nimona
Best International Feature Film
Io Capitano
Perfect Days
Society of the Snow
The Teachers’ Lounge
The Zone of Interest
Best VFX
The Creator
Godzilla Minus One
Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3
Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning Part One
Napoleon
Best Cinematography
El Conde
Killers of the Flower Moon
Maestro
Oppenheimer
Poor Things
Best Sound
The Creator
Maestro
Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning Part One
Oppenheimer
The Zone of Interest
Best Editing
Anatomy of a Fall
The Holdovers
Killers of the Flower Moon
Oppenheimer
Poor Things
Best Production Design
Barbie
Killers of the Flower Moon
Napoleon
Oppenheimer
Poor Things
Best Costume Design
Barbie
Killers of the Flower Moon
Napoleon
Oppenheimer
Poor Things
Best Make-up and Hairstyling
Golda
Maestro
Oppenheimer
Poor Things
Society of the Snow
Best Animated Short
Letter to a Pig
Ninety-Five Senses
Our Uniform
Pachyderme
War Is Over! Inspired by the Music of John & Yoko
Best Documentary Short
The ABCs of Book Banning
The Barber of Little Rock
Island In Between
The Last Repair Shop
Nǎi Nai and Wài Pó
Best Live Action Short
The After
Invincible
Knight of Fortune
Red, White and Blue
The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar
Best Original Score
American Fiction
Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny
Killers of the Flower Moon
Oppenheimer
Poor Things
Best Original Song
The Fire Inside – Flamin’ Hot
‘I'm Just Ken’ – Barbie
It Never Went Away – American Symphony
Wahzhazhe – Killers of the Flower Moon
What Was I Made For? – Barbie
Best Documentary Feature
Bobi Wine: The People's President
The Eternal Memory
Four Daughters
To Kill a Tiger
20 Days in Mariupol
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